Is there any statistical data on patterns & Blue eyes?
Surayya
July 25, 2012 July 25, 2012
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Was nodding of to sleep the other night & a thought hit me- has anyone done some kind of statistical analysis between Blue Eyes & the different Splash White patterns &/or Frame, including Homozygous, Heterozygous & compound forms of the horses tested to date?
I also noted when looking at the 'tested for SW thread on here', that many of the non mini Homozygous SW horses had Blue eyes & the Heterozygous ones didn't... Is this the way its looking in general to those of you who have more experience with SW?
I must admit I have been rather lax of late in researching what interests me most (colour inheritance), so I'm rather a tad behind in most of the latest developments (still trying to wrap my mind around the newest Roan stuff lol), so this may have been discussed already, in which case sorry for the new thread :)
hmm, so that would be a no
hmm, so that would be a no there isn't then ;)
I may look into it, as even in the morgans that have been tested almost all the HZ one's have blue eyes as well yet the reverse is true of the heterozygous horses (most dont mention if they have 1, 2 or 3- so cant comment on the compounds).
Considering splash is
Considering splash is supposed to be an incomplete dominant, homozygocity shouldn't matter too much in the occurrence of blue eyes, but there are always other genes fighting for eye control. So its possible that these other genes are either enhancing or reducing the chance at having blue eyes. It's also possible that HZ and compound splash would tend to have blue eyes over heterozygous animals, kind of like how HZ tobianos tend to have paw prints, but its not a guarantee on being homozygous or heterozygous.